FOI/202600519904 · FOI · partially withheld
Discussions about the selection of North Lanarkshire as an AI Growth Zone: FOI release
Information requested
Details of discussions (meetings or written communications) between the Scottish Government and the Secretary of State, junior ministers, Permanent Secretary, or Directors General at the UK Government Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology about the selection of North Lanarkshire as an AI Growth Zone.
If there were written communications, please provide the emails and letters and their attachments, memos, briefings, and research documents.
If there were meetings, please provide a list of attendees, including the full names and titles of each attendee, as well as who each attendee represents, the date of the meeting, materials that were handed out and received during the meeting, minutes taken during the meeting, and any accompanying briefing notes and papers. Please also indicate who initiated the meeting.
Response
I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested in PDF format.
While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption(s) under section(s) of FOISA applies to that information.
An exemption under section s.38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested. This applies to personal information of some civil servants.
This exemption is not subject to the 'public interest test', so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.
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While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance we are unable to provide some of the information you have requested because an exemption(s) under section(s) of FOISA applies to that information. An exemption under section s.38(1)(b) of FOISA applies to some of the information you have requested. This exemption is not subject to the 'public interest test', so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.